Waste Not! Issue #3: Easter Ham

Ok, first of all I know Easter is over and long-gone but realistically you could at any point find a great deal on a bone-in ham, so why not .  Also, I admit I was a bit ``hammed out`` after Easter - well really I was completely fooded out - so it took me a while to get to the left overs to play around with another round of Waste Not!

So in this issue we`ll pretend you are having company over and want to make a simple but elegant main course, but want left overs to turn into a few different preparations during the next week.

Round 1:

Marmalade Glazed Ham with Orange Tea Sauce

This dish is incredibly easy and it is very hard to destroy a ham.  In fact, you really have to be bent on killing it completely to do anything wrong with this recipe.  The glaze is based on orange marmalade with a bit of mustard, and the sauce uses a few flavoured teabags, a bit of marmalade and some mustard.  Wonderful and wonderfully simple.

Served with :

Boursin Cheese Mashed Potatoes
Roasted Asparagus

Round 2:

Spaghetti Carbonara

This dish is a perfect quick mid-week dinner.  The sauce is really just a few eggs, mixed with some parmesan cheese, but combined with the ham, pasta and herbs, the taste is wonderful and light.


Round 3:

Ham and Cabbage Soup

A delicious and hearty soup that makes great use of the ham bone and the left over meat embedded there.  It is wonderfully rich and slightly smokey. a fact you could probably play up even more with a few drops of liquid smoke.  I find the use of sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes adds a slight sweetness and smoothness to the soup that is just out of this world.